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I've grown the habit of telling people (in walking context) there are ultra marathons where people walk 5000 km and (in cycling contest) that I know low end cyc
by 6510 7y ago
I've grown the habit of telling people (in walking context) there are ultra marathons where people walk 5000 km and (in cycling contest) that I know low end cycling enthusiasts who do 300 km in a day - pushing as hard as they can. Their fitness is much closer to ours than to those winning the Tour de France.
In my mind that means looking up to 1.5 km walk or 10 km of cycling really says more about me and you than it says about the distance. The world walking record is 175 km in 24 hours. Think about it, that is much more than a hundred times 1.5km. Someone some day cycled.... over 900 km in a day! Climbing Mount Everest is only 20 km but it takes 55 days!
You have to be in terrible shape to look up to 1.5 km.
- slavik81 7y ago> there are ultra marathons where people walk 5000 km and [...] the world walking record is 175 km in 24 hours. Is that right? That's 685 days of continuous walking at the world record speed.
- 6510 7y agoDon't ask me how. I downloaded the information from the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_R... You have 52 days to do it. Record: 40 days 09:06:21 by Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto
- slavik81 7y agoI screwed up the math. It's 28.6 days at the world record speed. I multiplied by 24 unnecessarily. Still a long time, but a lot more reasonable (and it agrees with your records).